Mathias Willis Store House

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Mathias Willis Store House
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LocationCummins Road, near Windyville, Kentucky
Coordinates 37°10′44″N86°21′34″W / 37.17889°N 86.35944°W / 37.17889; -86.35944 (Willis, Mathias, Store House)
Area9.7 acres (3.9 ha)
MPS Early Stone Buildings of Kentucky Outer Bluegrass and Pennyrile TR
NRHP reference No. 87000172 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 8, 1987

The Mathias Willis Store House, in Edmonson County, Kentucky near Windyville, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1]

It was built by Mathias Will as a "store house," serving river travellers. It is the only dry-stone building known in Edmonson County besides consumptive huts built within Mammoth Caves. [2]

It is a single-room 30 by 60 feet (9.1 m × 18.3 m) dry-stone store building, built on a bank above the Green River, in what was in 1983 a picturesque flat meadow. It is built of quarried, shaped stone that is "fossiliferous, oolitic, bioclastic limestone: Glen Dean member of lower Mississippian series." [2]

The site was listed for its archeological information potential. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. 1 2 rarolyn Murray-Wooley (December 1983). "Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory: Mathias Willis General Store House". National Park Service . Retrieved May 5, 2018. With accompanying four photos from 1983
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